that biblical passage has sometimes sufficed as a way of stating the Christian perspective on political life. But in drawing this summary out of his Calvinist memory bank, the student failed to capture even a few of the basic nuances of Kuyperian social thought. And I do want to emphasize the word “social.” In his use of the sphere sovereignty motif, Kuyper was more interested in viewing governmental authority against the larger tapestry of human interaction than he was in providing a detailed theory